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PLANE. No. 306,507. Patented Oct. 14,1884.

lllrrnn rares a'rnni lttltm CHARLES A. MEEKINS, OF PINE MEADOW, CONNECTICUT.

PLANE.

EPECIFICA'I'ION forming part of Letters Patent No. 306,507, dated October 1%, 1884.

Application filed March 27, 1884.

To all whom, it may-concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. IlIEEKIYS, of Pine Meadow, in the county of Litchfield and State of Connecticut, have invented acert ain new and useful Improvement in Planes,

of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, where Figure 1 is a plan view of a plane embody- IO ing my improvements. Fig. 2 is a view in longitudinal central section of the same on plane denoted by line at m of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail plan view of the clamping-lever. Fig. 4 is a detail view of a form of my device without the adjusting feature.

My invention relates to the class of planes in which are used clamping and slow-motion devices for the purpose of adjusting the plane'- iron to out to different depths.

It consists in the clamping device secured in the plane-body in front of the plane-iron, and in the adjusting device, and in the combination of these parts, as more particularly hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter (0 denotes a plane-body of ordinary form and of any desired material-as woodhaving the handle Z) and the depthwise mortise c, in which the plane-iron (Z is held.

In a socket, c, in the plane-body, and in front of the plane-iron, is placed a clamping lever, f, having the arms j", the ends of which bear upon the upper face of the plane-iroinas seen in Fig. 4, or upon the upper edge of the 35 rocking lever g. which forms a part of the plane-ironadjusting mechanism. This lever f is fulcrumed on the downward-projecting lugs a,which are fast to or a part of the planebody, and a screw, h, operates in a threaded o socketff, in the lever. Fast to this rotary screw IL is a handle, h, having a shoulder on its lower end, that bears against the upper surface of the plane-body. By operating the screw h the inner end of the clamping-lever f 5 may be raised or lowered at will, binding or loosening the plane-iron.

Fast to the upper side of the plane-iron (Z is a cap-iron, 13, curved lengthwise in such manner as to aii'ord a space between the cap (No model.)

iron and the plane-iron for the working 01" the rocking lever g. This lever is operated by means of an adjusting-screw, 7.", moving in a socket in the cap-iron,and has a round surface, g, bearing upon the uppersurface of theplaneiron, and directly opposite the bearing-face upward-projecting arms 9, that extend through an opening in the cap-iron'and take into open sockets f 011 the lower side of the armsf of the clamping-lever.

The parts being assembled as shown in Fig. 2 of drawings, the plane-iron is clamped in any desired position in the mortise by means of the lever and the screw 71, and the longitudinal adjustment of the plane-iron is effected by means of the screw it, which, by rocking the lever 9 while the extremity of the short arm of the lever is held in the socket of clamp,which is fixed against longitudinal motion, thus causes the iron to move.

I claim as my invention- 1. In combination, a plane-body, a, bearing plane-iron (I, having a socket, e, in front y of the plane-iron,in which is seated the clam ping-leverf,with.feet f, arranged to press upcn the plane-iron, and the longer arm of the le ver moved by means of the threaded screw 71. having a handle, 7/, all substantially as de scribed.

2. In combination, a plane-body, a, bearing a plane-iron, d, and having mortise c and socket c, clamping lever f, with feet f, which bear upon the upper face of the plane-iron, and is fulcrumed on lugs to, fast to the planebody, and has a threaded socket, f in which the screw h is operated by means of the hen dle 7r, all substantially as described.

3. In combination, in a plane, a plane-iron bearing between the plane-iron and a cap-iron, a bent lever having a curved bearing-surface in contact with the upper surface of the planeiron, and its shorter arm engaging a socket in the extremity of a clamping-lever, with means for operating the adjusting-lever, all substantially as described.

CHARLES A. MEEKINS.

XVitnesses W. H. MARsI-I, A, 0. TANNER. 

